Southern Alabama Veterans Ball Committee
Celebrating Service And Sacrifice
Event Details:
Veterans Holiday Fair - November 8th
Veterans Ball - November 9th
The itinerary
November 8th 10am – 8pm
Kiwanis Center 20096 Kiwanis Drive, Andalusia, AL
Open to the General Public
Veterans Holiday Fair
The Veterans Holiday Fair starts promptly at 10am with all sorts of vendors, arts, crafts and attractions which will be contoured towards veterans and the forthcoming holiday season. We’ve been told Santa Claus will be making an appearance at our fair from 4pm – 8pm. The general public is invited to attend.
November 9th 5:00pm – Until
Kiwanis Center 20096 Kiwanis Dr. Andalusia, AL 36420
This event is not open to the general public Veterans & family only
For Ball tickets go to saveteransball.com
or for more information
please contact 334-362-0456 / info@saveteransball.com
Veterans Ball
The Veterans Ball is of course the crown jewel of our two events, it will be an evening of elegance filled with music, dining, dancing and ceremony honoring our veteran’s service and sacrifices to this great nation.
Join us for a elegant night of music, dining, dancing, and camaraderie as we celebrate our service and sacrifice for this great nation.
Guest Speaker
David Michael Edwards
Mike served in the Army for 22 years, 18 of that in the Army’s premier raid force the 75th Ranger Regiment, and within the Regiments secretive Tier-1 SMU the Regimental Reconnaissance Company. During his career he deployed 18 times to Combat and conducted over 5,000 Military Free Fall jumps.
Mike is now the Director of VIP security for USPA Nationwide security. At USPA he manages and advises the safety and protection of high-profile individuals and events. Mike recently managed USPA’s projects for Google, Yves Saint Laurent and other high-profile events in Miami. During Art Basel, he led a team of close protection officers, former Rangers, and SEAL Team 6 veterans, from USPA’s Titanium Service (their most elite VIP security unit)to guard celebrities such as Madonna. During the 2023 Art Basel he managed the event security for a fund raising event for Leonardo DiCaprio’s re:Wild an event that featured other celebrities such as Sean Penn, and Tom Brady.
Mike is the Founder of Project Exodus Relief, one of the most productive and influential volunteer groups organised to evacuate Americans and Afghan SOF. During the high point of operations Mike managed this team of roughly 150 personnel including intel analysts, tactical teams, ground teams leaders, finance and social media teams as well as local nationals spread across 15 different countries, while simultaneously traveling to speak to politicians advocating for this demographic. Mike has been outspoken on the events surrounding the disastrous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the corruption in Ukraine and has been seen on Fox News, Newsmax, The Sebastian Gorka show, The Federalist, and has been written about in a number of articles from Newsweek,the NYT, the Wall street Journal and other publications. His exploits with the CIA’s Hunter Killer teams,
was written about by Jack Murphy and Sean Naylor in their expose called “Zeroed Out, how JSOC’s Omega teams enabled the CIA’s Afghan militia” He can also be seen on the Team House Podcast where he has been a guest 3 times as well as the Combat Story Podcast.
Mike now spends most of his free time as a student of the Bible and has devoted his life to becoming a bible scholar and helping those in need. He also spends much of his time traveling and speaking to various groups on persevering through adversity, leadership, fitness and endurance, corporate and personal security as well as many other topics. His long career in an elite SOF unit has uniquely set him up to have a valuable perspective on how to better manage and prepare for these events and many others.